Baseball season is off to a fine start, and Boston Red Sox fans are pretty pumped up. I was told v. early this morning that Boston, at this point in the season, has won more games than in the team’s history (at this time of year). Might be. With such a promising start, why in […]
Archives for June 2018
Donald Trump Votes to Support America’s Military Heroes
White House 3:00 PM Wednesday June 6th President Donald Trump announces: We will proudly be playing the National Anthem and other wonderful music celebrating our Country today at 3 P.M., the White House, with the United States Marine Band and the United States Army Chorus. Honoring America! NFL, no escaping to Locker Rooms! In my […]
Putin’s Strong but Insignificant Run
Walter Russell Mead, writing in The Wall Street Journal, says that while Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy has flair, Russia remains weak, and its power limited. He writes (abridged): Vladimir Putin’s foreign-policy flair has both electrified and horrified the world for a full decade. Since 2008, Mr. Putin has partitioned Georgia, invaded Ukraine, and annexed Crimea. […]
Liberal Lunacy–a Scene Out of Burning Man
Only without the nudity, says Tucker Carlson. The real story here, Tucker maintains, is how President Trump has convinced the Democratic Party to destroy itself. For the last two years or so, the rest of us have watched as the Democratic Party has been utterly transformed into something totally different. What was once the stodgy […]
For an Edge in the European Logistical Race, Companies Look East
When arriving in France and immediately driving away from Charles de Gaulle airport, it’s hard to miss all the warehouses/distribution facilities on your way to Paris. I found this article interesting as companies battle for logistics superiority by building in more affordable Eastern and Central Europe. The WSJ’s Isobel Lee explains: The industrial real-estate market […]
The Case Against Education
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money written by economist Bryan Caplan points to the billions of dollars spent on education by government. It seems like everyone needs a diploma these days. For what? An excuse to drink beer? But, as Caplan explains, that degree is valued […]
China Just Released Images of an F-22 Style Unmanned Jet
The Chinese just revealed a new remotely piloted fighter jet dubbed the “Dark Sword.” The Dark Sword has an F-22 style vertical stabilizer which means it could be capable of supersonic flight. Experts are warning the Dark Sword could give the Chinese a strategic advantage over the U.S. The curious case of the reappearing Dark […]
War Is Hell
Fifteen years go, the iconoclastic global romantic and raconteur supreme, Taki Theodoracopulos was a co-founder of The American Conservative. I have followed Taki’s writings since. Today, Taki has moved on to focus on Taki’s Mag, but he remains as prolific a recounter as ever, and I try to catch each of his often eyebrow-raising, controversial […]
Pat Buchanan: “We Are in a New World Now”
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan writes that Donald Trump won the presidency by saying goodbye to the free trade, open borders, amnesty pushing, regime change threatening ways of the GOP. Pat wonders how the Bush-Boehner style Republicans can ever return from their defeat. He writes (abridged): “There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump […]
Ronald Reagan’s Invective Rivaled Trump’s Worst
With President Trump’s bombastic rhetoric and incessant twittering, the easy sentiment might be to look back at Ronald Reagan as a genial, principled conservative. But as Victor Davis Hanson reminds readers, “a review of the 1966 gubernatorial campaign reveals one of the nastiest races in California memory.” Reagan gave back everything that Edmund Brown Sr. dished […]
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